Enhancement of the Big Data project inventory in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division and the HLG Modernisation Committee on Products and Sources: a new, more detailed questionnaire is under development with the aim of obtaining a more comprehensive picture of current and planned projects and facilitating exchange of knowledge and experience.

identify, examine and provide guidance for statistical organizations to act upon the main strategic and methodological issues that Big Data poses for the official statistics industry

demonstrate the feasibility of efficient production of both novel products and ‘mainstream’ official statistics using Big Data sources, and the possibility to replicate these approaches across different national contexts

facilitate the sharing across organizations of knowledge, expertise, tools and methods for the production of statistics using Big Data sources.

This is the public-access wiki space for UNECE work relating to Big Data. It contains information about Big Data activities and events, and links to relevant resources. A separate wiki space exists for those working on the HLG projects on Big Data in Official Statistics.

Inventory of Big Data projects

This inventory aims to catalogue past, current and planned projects in statistical organisations around the world, that make use of Big Data for the production of official statistics.

Links and Resources

These are just a few of the thousands of Big Data resources available: those which are of greatest relevance to official statistics. Please feel free to add others using the button at the bottom of this section, or notify us.